BP Fundamentals Flashcards
BP Term: Business Process Type
A type of Business Process delivered by Workday that can be automated using Workflow (i.e. Hire, Terminate, Expense Report Event, etc.)
BP Term: Business Process Definition
A Business Process is the definition of tasks that need to be done in order for an event to occur, the order in which they must be completed, and who must do them. Workday includes a number of predefined business processes for different purposes.
BP Term: Business Process Instance
A business process instance is a business process that the initiator has started. For example, the “Hire for Organization X” business process definition becomes an instance when the initiator uses it to hire a particular applicant.
BP Term: Task
A task is a business process step that a user must complete. For example, task alert notifications are triggered by steps in a business process.
BP Term: Event
An event is a transaction that occurs within your company such as hiring or terminating an employee. Workday Business Processes represent how Workday should respond to one of these events.
BP Term: Security Group
A security group is a group of people with specific responsibilities and permissions. When a Business Process runs, the step or task is sent to those in the security group configured for that step. If a role-based security group, the step includes all the workers in that role in the organization of the business process target.
BP Term: Target
The target is the object that the business process operates on. E.g. the employee, the general ledger, etc.
The target determines the org, and therefore controls which BP custom definition Workday uses.
BP Term: Initiator
The user that initiates the business process instance.
Business Process Configuration Options Report
Enables you to determine how a business process type can be configured by detailing the options available and any restrictions.
Lists all available actions, approval options, what sub-processes can be used in the BP, options on saving, restrictions, prerequisite actions, whether the BP is a sub-process only, what BP’s it is allowed as a sub-process, org types for which it is valid, approval options, whether it allows mass approval steps, the allowed actions, and more!
BP Column: Step
This leftmost column holds the related action icon which contains available actions for the particular step of the business process.
BP Column: Order
This determines the order of execution for the steps within a business process. Use letters. Numbers are sorted alphabetically, not numerically, so 10 sorts before 2.
The initiation step is always a. Use characters b through z for the remaining steps.
If you use the exact same string. For example: three steps are d, they run in parallel and all must be completed in order for the next step to proceed. You can also skip letters.
BP Column: If
A condition is part of a business process step and consists of one or more rules an “if” statement. The step will not occur, if the condition is not satisfied.
BP Column: Type
This is where you identify the type of step. For example: Action, Service, or To Do.
BP Column: Specify
This is where you specify the type of step. For example: Type = Action; Specify = Propose Compensation
BP Column: Optional
Yes = Step is Optional No = Step is Required
An optional step does not have to be completed. The notification message contains a link that the recipient can click to skip the step. The next step does not begin until the recipient either chooses to skip it or completes it.
BP Column: Group
Specify one ore more security groups responsible for this step. The available security groups are limited to those allowed by the security policy. This step appears in everyone’s inbox automatically and is removed when someone in the group completes the step.
BP Column: Routing Restrictions
You can optionally define routing restrictions and alternate routing for certain business process step types (Initiation and Checklist step types cannot be rerouted)
BP Column: All
If the All column is NOT checked, as soon as one person in the assigned group approves the request, the notification disappears from everyone else’s inbox and the business process continues.
BP Column: Run as User
Used to identify the User for a Batch or Integration step type.
BP Column: Due Date
This is the elapsed time from when the process is initiated until the process should be complete.
BP Column: Due Date is Based on Effective Date
Refers to the effective date that the initiator specifies when starting an instance of the BP
BP Column: Complete
When a completion step finishes, the business process is listed as complete, even if there are more steps to do. For example, a person can be listed as “hired,” even if the steps for having the new employee enter their personal information and W-4 form are not done, yet.
Completion makes the data for this business process available to other systems like Payroll or General Ledger. Make sure all approval steps and Review action steps come before the completion step. If there is no completion step, the business process is considered complete when the last step finishes.
BP Step Type: Initiation
Always the first step in a BP
BP Step Type: Action
An action or event that occurs within WD. E.g. An action step of “Review Employee Hire” within the Hire (Default Definition).
BP Step Type: Approval
Gives the designated approver the opportunity to approve or deny the entire business process.
BP Step Type: Approval Chain
Also approves the entire business process.
A sequence of approvals that starts with an individual, then goes to that person’s manager, and on up the mgmt chain until it gets to the top, or until some exit condition is met.
Use the Group column to set the security gr4oup that starts the chain.
BP Step Type: Batch / Job
Allows you to specify that a batch process be run as a BP step.
BP Step Type: Checklist
A collection of To Dos. You can select one of the checklists available to the particular Org.
BP Step Type: Complete Questionnaire
By specifying a questionnaire as part of a BP, allows you to gather relevant info for making data-driven decisions.
BP Step Type: Consolidated Approval
Enables you to combine multiple approvals for the same person into a single approval task notification.
Approvers see a simplified info for each step, but with a link to more info, if needed.
As with other approvals, this will either approve or deny/terminate the entire BP.
BP Step Type: Consolidated Approval Chain
Combines the properties of an Approval Chain with a Consolidated Approval
BP Step Type: Edit Additional Data
Can be used to edit custom fields within the context of a BP. NOTE: BP validation rules do not apply to this step.
BP Step Type: Integration
A WD system operation that transfers data to or from an external application. An integration step would also kick off a separate processing thread.
BP Step Type: Report
Allows you to have a report run as a BP step. The report output is sent automatically to the W: drive, rather than displayed.
Optionally, you can create a To Do step within the BP that consolidates the link(s) to one or more reports within a single To Do step.
BP Step Type: Report Group
Sames as Report step, but allows multiple financial reports to run as a single unit.
BP Step Type: Review Documents
Enables you to use a BP to distribute documents to workers.